Word: method
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Called cryosurgery, from the Greek kryos (cold or frost), the new method actually involves neither ice nor scalpel. The surgeon inserts a thin cannula (tube) that kills offending tissue with liquid nitrogen's intense cold (- 196° C., or 321° below zero F.). Usually no tissue is actually removed, and the body's natural clean-up system removes the debris. Virtually bloodless and almost painless, cryosurgery can be done on patients who remain fully conscious or only lightly anesthetized. In some cases cryosurgery is used only to relieve symptoms, but in others it achieves actual cures. Among...
...student at the Business School has found that he is "very compatible" with the three girls he has contacted so far. He adds that "this method of meeting girls is far better than wandering around dances, just knowing what they look like...
Ever since Nicholas Boylston endowed a chair in rhetoric and oratory at Harvard with ?.1,500 in 1771, its ten distinguished holders, starting with John Quincy Adams, have been charged to pursue excellence "in the theory and practice of writing and speaking well, that is, with method, elegance, harmony, dignity and energy." Last week Harvard assigned the chair to methodical, elegant, harmonious, dignified, energetic Robert Stuart Fitzgerald, 54, poet, journalist, anthologist and translator of the classics...
This year SDS alone led the march; yet its members could agree only that the war was bad and that the U.S. should withdraw if possible. "Although those among us might differ as to which method is most desirable," a policy statement read, "we are unanimously of the opinion that the war must be brought...
...this method proved a deadend. The volunteers had neither the time nor the experience to transform a stop-sign protest into full-fledged organization on each street. And each block remained a separate unit, rather than fusing into a larger movement...